Almamater talk

The Goverment is getting desperate to improve the quality of education in India. And for this the amount of fund they are allocating is magnanimous. Surprisingly I am in agreement with government this time. According to Rediff, goverment is comming out with a new term in accordance with IIT/INI, now comes, IIEST which stands for something Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology. Also, the government is planning to open up three new IITs and planning extension of centers/satellite campuses in various states. Now this I think is a far far better idea than increasing some stupid quota just to gather more sympathy votes.

There are seven colleges proposed to get IIEST standard. IIEST will have their position/standard somehwhere between IITs and IISc. Nothing has been finalized yet, such as the date of official announcement, enterance type, academic curriculum etc. etc. As for opening up new IITs, the most probable places Karnatka (I guess, Bangalore), Andhra Pradesh (I guess Hyderabad) and Bihar (I dont where will they open up in Bihar). But the good news remain, earlier talks were to convert the seven colleges shortlisted to IITs but none were found worthy of status and their improvement would have cost more than what it will cost to open up new IITs. Plus I think whenever this kind of conversion should take place, they should open up new colleges rather than converting the existing one. Atleast I would feel bad if someone changed the name of my almamater to something else.

As for other news, they are constantly working on reducing the stress on a 10+2 goer. I would suggest why not just take a lucky draws and invite the first 3000 lucky draw winners! Now they have converted it two paper exam, rather than three and stress is more on objective type questions! So far, IITs seem seriously threatened by Kota-ites…